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Blitz on drugs targeting young people
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/06/2025
» The government has launched an urgent crackdown on four newly emerging forms of narcotics popular with young people, which are disguised in attractive, everyday products, including candy, lozenges, and inhalers available on online platforms.
Senate election starts smoothly
Post Reporters, Published on 09/06/2024
» The district-level vote in the Senate election on Sunday ran smoothly and wrapped up with several well-known political figures winning this first round of the race for Upper House seats, including former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and former election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn.
Tiptoeing through the minefield
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 31/12/2022
» 2023 should be the first time in three years Thailand can fully return to normal practices after Covid-19 was downgraded to endemic in October 2022. Yet busineses still need to stay alert to several obstacles on the horizon.
Islamic school association blasts weed legalisation
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/07/2022
» The Private Schools Confederation Association of Southern Thailand is calling on the government to reinstate cannabis as a Category 5 narcotic, saying the plant's legalisation contradicts the curriculum and the region's moral standards.
The sweet smell of success
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 25/04/2022
» Though Thailand faces gloomy economic prospects with a surge in inflation, higher energy prices and persistent Covid outbreaks, a performance by Thai rapper Danupha "Milli" Khanatheerakul at the Coachella Festival in California that was capped by her eating khao nieo mamuang (mango sticky rice) on stage went viral on social media, reigniting buzz over the influence of soft power.
Arrest after lewd tape threat leads to suicide
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/03/2022
» A 26-year-old who was arrested for blackmailing a 17-year-old boy who later committed suicide, after the former posed as a female then threatened to make public a sexually explicit tape, may have used the same ploy on 20 others during the past two years, police said yesterday.
Prices surge into danger zone
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 24/01/2022
» Growing concern over food and energy prices has both the state and private sectors uneasy about an economic nightmare rapidly approaching.
Cops gear up for Bangkok protests
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/03/2021
» About 4,800 crowd control police officers will be deployed to handle four anti-government groups that are set to hold rallies in Bangkok on Saturday.
Govt accused of charter ploy
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/02/2021
» The constitutional amendment process is expected to be derailed as the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) and senators will seek a charter court ruling on whether the process is constitutional.
Land grab 'factor' in forest reserve blaze
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/04/2020
» MAE HONG SON: A forest reserve in the northern province of Mae Hong Son was destroyed in a bushfire believed to have been started as part of a land encroachment ploy, the local forest protection authorities said on Wednesday.